2007-02-02 12:37:20 · 9 answers · asked by trendmite 2 in Pets ➔ Reptiles
same for us but we found out that one was a female and one was a mail
2007-02-02 16:04:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you get them at the same time, or one at a time?
We have a red-eared slider, and were considering getting him a friend, but the people at our pet store say that if we did, he would end up eating all of the food and not letting the "baby" have any for him/herself. Maybe you could try feeding the smaller one separately, or put him/her in a smaller tank, by itself? Just a thought. Good Luck!
2007-02-02 12:51:20 · answer #2 · answered by Nancy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i purchased 2 purple ear turtles, (July 15 2014),I named them as Romeo and Juliet (I even do not understand their gender).contained in the starting up Juliet grow to be once ingesting better(they could be scuffling with). each and each were in same length once i purchased. Julie grow to be once regardless of the indisputable fact that the equivalent length regardless of the indisputable fact that Romeo has grown as a lot as two times the formed length. Julie slowly stopped ingesting. It died at cutting-edge. From per week, it has predicament in respiratory. I even haven't any veteran for turtles in my locality. The puppy save guy or female reported that it will have received a lung ailment, thinking the shown reality that i continuously used to positioned it in water. (I positioned it out weekly two times or three times for an hour or so and again positioned it again). My field is also now not so enormous, that is in hardship-free words a tremendous bowl, yet it truly is not the undertaking, the impediment is that it stayed maximum of its time in water, the puppy save human being reported that i ought to positioned a stand (stone or something it truly is type of a step so it ought to face in it for respiratory each and every time it needs to (that is so small, i can not cope with to pay for to positioned it down and flow away it). i'm now not scaring you, regardless of the indisputable fact that purely take maximum ideas-blowing care of it.
2016-12-03 09:22:42 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do they eat the same amount of food? or do you just put food in the tank and walk away? did you get it at the same size and time? if you did one might be the more dominance one and eating more than the other with out you knowing. try to monitor them when you feed them.
2007-02-02 13:06:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
if you got them at the same time the main reason why i think that might happen is if because they are turtles of different sex. The female are much bigger then males. so the females might be growing at a faster pace.
2007-02-02 14:15:57 · answer #5 · answered by healedwounds31490 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without knowing the details, the most common reason for this is that the tank is too small and one is bullying the other.
This is one reason we recommend BIG tanks for turtles- we suggest about 10 gallons of swimming space per inch of turtle shell length.
Try http://www.redearslider.com or http://www.austinsturtlepage.com for info.
2007-02-02 13:53:32 · answer #6 · answered by Madkins007 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One may be eating more aggresively than the other one. Try seperating them and see if the little one starts eating more.
2007-02-02 17:41:23 · answer #7 · answered by Astroboy1979 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe the one is eating all the food and leaving none for the other.
2007-02-02 14:20:01 · answer #8 · answered by @(^.^)@ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mine started growing a lot the second we put it in a bigger tank!!
2007-02-02 16:20:27 · answer #9 · answered by Rileysmom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋